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The five Gospels : the search for the authentic words of Jesus : new translation and commentary

Publication date: 1993

Topics: Jesus Christ -- Words, Jesus Christ -- Historicity, Jésus-Christ -- Paroles, Jésus-Christ -- Historicité, Jesus Christ, Jesus Seminar, Bible. Gospels -- Commentaries, Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel) -- Commentaries, Bible. New Testament. Évangiles -- Commentaires, Évangile de Thomas -- Commentaires, Bible. Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (Coptic Gospel), Bible. N.T. Gospels - Commentaries, Jesus Christ - Historicity, Gospel Of Thomas - Commentaries, Jesus Christ - Words, Historicity of Jesus Christ, Words of Jesus Christ

Publisher: New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xxii, 553 pages : 25 cm

An assessment of authenticity of the more than 1,500 sayings attributed to Jesus, including those from the Gospel of Thomas

"A Polebridge Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-541) and index

Introduction -- The search for the real Jesus: Darwin, Scopes, and all that -- The seven pillars of scholarly wisdom -- The Jesus of history and the Christ of faith -- Text detectives and manuscripts sleuths: the Gospels in Greek -- A map of Gospel relationships -- Rules of written evidence -- From the Gospels to Jesus: the rules of oral evidence -- Beads and boxes: the Jesus seminar at work -- The Gospel of Mark -- The Gospel of Matthew -- The Gospel of Luke -- The Gospel of John -- The Gospel of Thomas